2002年10月9日,瑞典皇家科学院宣布,把本年度的诺贝尔经济学奖授予美国经济学者丹尼尔·卡尼曼和弗农·史密斯,以表彰他们在行为经济学和实验经济学研究方面所做的开创性工作。瑞典皇家科学院发表的新闻公报说,传统上,经济学研究主要建筑在人们受自身利益驱动和能作出理性决策 On October 9, 2002, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it will award this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics to U.S. economists Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith in recognition of their conduct in behavioral and experimental economics research Groundbreaking work. The press release issued by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that traditionally, economic studies have been mainly constructed on the basis that people are motivated by their own interests and can make rational decisions